Senior Cyber Security Architect

$140,000 - $175,000/Yr

Criterion Systems - Las Vegas, NV

Full-time - Senior

Las Vegas, NV

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Criterion Systems, we developed a different kind of business-a company whose real value is a reputation for excellence built upon the collective skills, talents, perspectives, and backgrounds of its people. By accepting a position with Criterion Systems, you will join a group of professionals with a collaborative mindset where we share ideas and foster professional development to accomplish our goals. In addition to our great culture, we also offer competitive compensation and benefit packages, company-sponsored team building events, and advancement opportunities. To find out more about how Criterion can help you take your career to the next level please visit our website: www.criterion-sys.com. Criterion Systems is a Military/Veteran Friendly Company therefore we encourage Veterans to apply.

Responsibilities

• Be a technology leader within a team of senior systems engineers, senior network engineers, cybersecurity architects, and software developers.
• Close collaboration with customer personnel and teams to ensure solutions are developed with an Enterprise mindset and ensure solutions address site specific requirements and concerns.
• Work closely with Project Managers to develop and execute cybersecurity and IT projects.
• Providing technical guidance and mentoring to teams within the organization.
• Interview stakeholders to identify and collect requirements.
• Lead the development and maintenance of Security Architecture documents and artifacts.
• Develop secure solutions for enterprise, enclave, and local-level information systems.
• Create, analyze, and improve effectiveness of business and engineering processes.
• Support the strategic technical vision for the customer organization.
• Design solutions that satisfy redundancy, high-availability, scalability, security, and manageability requirements.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the organization's technology roadmap.
• Support the development and execution of plans to achieve the technology roadmap.
• Maintain a broad knowledge-base of emerging threats and technologies, and techniques to detect and mitigate them.
• Active participation in Engineering Review activities.
• Leading and working within cross-functional and cross-site teams, building consensus, and influencing project directions to achieve strategic objectives.
• Support the development of and updating of Cybersecurity and IT policies and procedures.
• Disrupt the status quo to eliminate complacency and drive innovation into cybersecurity and IT operations.
• Continual optimization of cybersecurity solutions to manage operating and maintenance costs and labor burden while improving effectiveness and responsiveness.
• This position may require up to 25% travel.

Requirements

• Excellent oral, written, and visual communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving ability and analytical skills.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of architecture standards and patterns, and a passion for advocating their correct usage.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of best practices for securing networks and computer systems.
• Experience designing, architecting, or implementing complex enterprise systems.
• Previous experience leading IT and/or cybersecurity teams and projects.
• In-depth knowledge of networking systems, architecture.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft O/S and services.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux O/S and services.
• In-depth knowledge of virtualization technologies.
• In-depth knowledge with cloud architectures and systems and security approaches.
• Effective leadership and relationship management skills, with ability to influence activity and performance without direct authority.
• Experience in implementing and delivering technology projects requiring cross-functional coordination.
• Solid understanding of best practices in designing and maintaining high availability systems and environments.
• 10 years of experience in Cybersecurity, IT, Systems Administration, Network Architecture, Systems Development, or related field.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, or related area, or substitute with 4 years of work experience in a related field.
• U.S. Citizenship is required (no dual citizenship).

Nice-to-haves

• Current Q or Active Top Secret Clearance.
• Experience architecting and/or engineering data pipelines, ETL processes, data ingestion systems, data storage, data normalization, data warehousing, and/or similar.
• Experience with engineering and architecture in a large, geographically separated, interconnected enterprise environment.
• Working knowledge of architecture frameworks and standards used in Federal Government IT and security operations.
• Experience working in a classified or highly secured IT networks and environments.
• A combination of standard Information Assurance industry certifications, to include GSEC, CISSP, CISM, CCIE, MCSE, RHCA, DoD 8570 or the ability to obtain a certification.
• Knowledge and experience of intrusion analysis, digital forensics, incident response, and incident management.
• Knowledge and experience working with Big Data and high-volume systems.
• Strong experience mitigating and remediating PC LOAD LETTER errors.
• Experience working with and designing geographically separated infrastructures and disaster recovery planning.
• Strong experience and background in solution development and deployment of large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of risk management, vulnerability mitigation, and compliance requirements for Federal IT systems.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Tuition/Training Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.